The Dao: To Ceaselessly Grow and Multiply Reflections on Zhang Yongzheng’s Paper-based Improvisational Works By Luo Fei Translated by R. Orion Martin Author’s note: I have long been interested in Zhang Yongzheng’s creative process, and am quite familiar with the various stages of his work. We’ve also always been very good friends, but when I […]

Travel 1 000 li in one day Reflections on Zhang Yongzheng’s improvisation When I first saw Zhang Yongzheng’s improvisations, my immediate point of reference was music. More specifically to “A donkey passes the river”, composed by his longtime friend Zhang Quan and performed by the now defunct Wild Children. The brush strokes know where they […]

R. Orion Martin and Zhang Yongzheng February 28th, 2012 Zhang Yongzheng’s Kunming Studio on West Jiaochang Road. What is the relationship between these works on paper and your other works? They are two states of painting. The paper works are completely improvised. They rely very little on reason or thinking. The canvas-based works belong to […]

Zhang Yongzheng(张永正) — the Big Bang of Mysterious rythm Sometimes Zhang Yongzheng’s art reminds me of the concept of “thin places”, an old Celtic-christian thinking that there are places where the veil between this world and the spiritual world is thin. This is of course a misinterpretation; his art is thoroughly rooted in Chinese traditon […]

PROCESS 2005–SOLO exhibition of Zhang Yongzheng Opening:Friday 20:00 2005/10/14 Exhibition time:2005/10/14-26 Add:Xi Ba Road No.101,LOFT, Kunming,Yunnan,China Preface by Zhang Quan: Nature endows species with abundant forms of creatures. Each individual life discloses to us the secret of Nature. Who arranges seasons, shift of day and night, sun light, rains and snows for us? And who […]

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